Events
- 31 March — The last public execution in Wales takes place as Robert Coe is hanged in Swansea.
- July — Launch of Yr Australydd, a Welsh language Calvinistic Methodist newspaper, in Victoria (Australia), edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams.
- 5 September — The Pembroke and Tenby Railway is extended for passengers to Whitland.
- 6 September — Six people are killed in a railway derailment near Criccieth.
- Sir George Gilbert Scott begins work on the renovation of Bangor Cathedral.
- The song Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau — later to become the official national anthem of Wales — is sung for the first time at the National Eisteddfod.
- The Baptist Union of Wales is established.
- Edward Gordon Douglas is created Baron Penrhyn.
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